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Why Is Everyone Leaving Prodigy??!? ft. Hunter Thomas
Hunter Thomas joins forces with Hunter's friend to discuss the sudden departures of Kevin Jones and Vino from Prodigy, a popular professional disc golf organization. The duo explores the reasons behind these high-profile exits, including the recent Preserve event, where Kevin's contract was reportedly a key factor in his decision. With exclusive insights from Kale, another prominent figure in the sport, they delve into the world of competitive disc golf, discussing crowd energy, scoreboard drama, and the pressures that come with being at the top of the game. As they break down the events leading up to Kevin's departure, the conversation touches on the importance of understanding the dynamics within professional sports teams and the challenges of maintaining a winning formula in high-stakes competition.
Hunter Thomas breaks down the recent Prodigy exodus in this exclusive interview, digging into what's next for pro disc golf.
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we have TMZ the man himself Hunter Thomas coming in to let us know what the heck as he repositioned himself here up there what the heck is going on with Prodigy we all saw the Kevin Jones announcement we were thinking that's weird and now Vino their biggest European signed player after N9 and a half years leaving his contract early as as well that's weird I before we get into Hunter uh I do have to say I did reach out to Kevin he basically told me um that he he has obligations tonight so he wasn't able to come on and then also said in the future just want to let you know that he cannot talk about parting ways with PR at all so it sounds like we're not going to get any information from Kevin uh obviously vinyl happened really quickly time difference uh wasn't able to get him on the show try to get kale on the show tonight too to like provide a little bit more insight because obviously Hunter you and Trevor talked to kale um which we'll talk a little bit about in a second but he unfortunately has uh some family matters to do deal with tonight but basically this is what kale said and then Hunter you can kind of fill in some of the gaps as well basically what he told me first off he wanted to say that preserve was the second highest grossing event behind Portland and Portland was a 4-day event preserve was only a 3-day event um he said the crowd was incredible all week the energy was there both for no and fpo especially coming down to the last couple holes they had over 2,000 people on the ground on Sunday pretty impressive stuff there uh shout out to everyone that came out yeah the fans the fans up there are incredible um and then he was basically saying too that he feels like every year that it's always going to come down to the last hole just because of the lack of OB you basically get a a bunched up scoreboard there um let's see so for pry departures essentially he said that pry made it to the point the year where they felt that Kevin's contract uh there were parts of Kevin's contract that he wasn't holding up so they were...
